Posted on 10/27/2013 5:25:55 AM PDT by NYer
Excellent point. People were wealthy enough to have scrolls for sorcery.
They’d be wealthy enough to have scrolls for Scripture.
Kind of disproves the *ignerunt savages* mentality about people who lived in those days.
Only literate people could benefit from those scrolls.
>> “How else would they have been able to study the Scriptures daily?” <<
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They went to the synagogue daily, just like the word says, and read them there.
Sorcerers are not of Yeshua’s sheep, and are free to steal and spend at will.
Then we have this to show funds were available for all needs to include study: Acts 2:
44 And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; 45 and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. 46 Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.
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